audio track's format is MONO by default in Logic, why?

my sine is fine wrote:
thanks, but i know that i can change it, i wonder are there any sense of using mono sources of audio files instead of stereo ones?

Uhhhhh...... it makes perfect sense as Logic "was" primarily designed as professional recording software.

Even if you record a stereo pair it's almost always recorded as two mono tracks.

pancenter-

The whole idea of templates is for you to be able to set your own starting defaults.

Don't use someone else's templates, make your own. If you always want to start with 10 stereo audio tracks, then set it up, and save it as your starting emplate, and Logic will always then start set up exactly how you want it.

This is the whole point of templates.

The default templates that ship with Logic are nothing more than examples - everybody should imo create customised templates for their own needs.

Also, I don't think I've ever used the "Import…" dialog.

I do a fair amount of editing/mixing of music from CDs, for musical accompaniment, and I've always just dragged the song directly into the arrange window.

That creates a stereo track with the chunk of audio on it (or a mono track, if the audio is mono).

It never occurred to me that there might be a more complicated way that could present me with problems. I guess I've been a Mac user too long. 😉

spheric wrote:
Also, I don't think I've ever used the "Import…" dialog.

I do a fair amount of editing/mixing of music from CDs, for musical accompaniment, and I've always just dragged the song directly into the arrange window.

That creates a stereo track with the chunk of audio on it (or a mono track, if the audio is mono).

It never occurred to me that there might be a more complicated way that could present me with problems. I guess I've been a Mac user too long. 😉

"Pencil tool shift click" or even the import key command is not necessarily more complicated than drag and drop plus it is much easier to quickly import (and audition) audio files from several locations without opening multiple windows. Maybe you have been a Mac user too long! 🙂

pancenter-

Bee Jay wrote:
That was the most sarcastic "was" I've read in a long time...

😉

It -was- rude... I even winced when typing the quotation marks.

It was probably also a bit unfair as Logic 9 even with it's technicolor pedalboard is working well for me. A few instances of East-West Gold will generate the low mem error and every once in a while automation seems to do a few random things but that's about it. If I had one of the last 2.7gHz G5's I could last two or three years.

pancenter-

Pencil-Shift-click is most certainly more complicated and difficult than grabbing something and dragging it to where you want it. The latter is completely intuitive.

What's faster and more efficient, though, is a different matter. 🙂

Pancenter wrote:
Even if you record a stereo pair it's almost always recorded as two mono tracks.

Really? I would rarely if ever do that. Stereo guitar, stereo drum overheads, stereo external synths, why record those as dual mono?

Well, at least in the case of drum OHs, you might want slightly different processing/EQ/whatever per channel, to quash that stupid china a little bit that you knew from the set-up that you would end up hating.

Mike Connelly wrote:
True, there will always be exceptions. But generally if I'm recording something stereo, I'll do it in stereo instead of dual mono.

The only times I record stereo are are if the output of the device is stereo, like a guitar processor, output of a synth or the stereo reverb from an external unit. If it's an acoustic track, stereo pair, overheads...etc, it's always two mono, mainly becuase of the eq & pan options.

pancenter-

Most people using Logic aren't importing audio files like you're doing. You don't record vocals, guitars, bass and drums in stereo...

Of all the ways to import audio into Logic, I tend to mostly shift-click with the pencil tool.

It just goes to show that we all work differently 😉

That was the most sarcastic "was" I've read in a long time...

😉

True, there will always be exceptions. But generally if I'm recording something stereo, I'll do it in stereo instead of dual mono.